Based in Portland, Oregon, publicly listed Rentrak leases videos from Hollywood and other studios, and then leases them to video rental stores.
Other tenants include TelAmerica Media Inc., which leases 23528 sqft, Center City Film and Video, which leases 11498 sqft and the Judge Group, which leases 6427 sqft.
Publicly held Rentrak, founded as a franchised video-store chain in 1980, makes 80% of its revenue (which was off 9% last year to $78 million) leasing DVDs, videocassettes and videogames on a revenue-sharing basis to 5,000 video rental outlets.
He relished his role, boasting of the company's swelling ambitions, which eventually expanded to include making commercials and music videos and leasing production facilities to other filmmakers.
In the process, you give your video a new lease on life with a much longer life expectancy.
But then video-game actors lease a smaller portion of their essence than film actors do; voices, after all, are more interchangeable than faces.
Think cloud computing instead of buying servers, WeWork instead of long-term leases, video chat instead of business trips and, in some cases, freelancers instead of full-time employees.
Covenant House struck a deal last year with Colossal Vision, a video billboard company, to lease space on its roof for a sign in exchange for a percentage of advertising revenue from it.
The Pseudo's assets include computer network servers, more than 100 desktop computers, video editing equipment, the leases at two buildings in SoHo and the software used to manage its chat rooms.
CHRISTOPHER PALMERI Fast forward VIACOM'S recent announcement that its Blockbuster video unit would begin leasing videos on a revenue-sharing basis made Ron Berger very happy.
And it means that my lifetime of video memories have a new lease on life.
